Prisons and the American Conscience

Paul W. Keve is a professor emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University and an award winning correctional administrator. Among his many books are Prison Life and Human Worth, The McNeil Century: The Life and Times of an Island Prison, and The History of Corrections in Virginia.

"Keve’s book provides a comprehensive account of the federal government’s management of offenders from the post-Revolutionary period to the present."     —Choice